In mid January the first release of the .NET Framework 3.5 reference sources occurred. In mid February there was a minor update because Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 come with a slightly later build of the framework. Also in February Kerem Kusmezer...

As it says in the title of the post. Read about it on the IE team blog . Read about it on the portal page . Read my previous post on IE8 compatibility.

This sounds like a good deal. Free? Free? Sounds to good to be true :-). But it is. If you are a full time student and into software development, take a look: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Overview.aspx Check the site for details, but at time of...

Late yesterday, the Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth team released an update to Photosynth as well as offering, for the first time, the ability to create your own "synths". Read all about it over at the Photosynth blog . If you've never heard...

I meant to post this sooner but forgot. Better late than never. Note the below survey is only active until the 22nd of August . Not all my blog posts are written in work time but many are, so here is a short message from my sponsor, as the saying goes...

You may have a need to uninstall .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, perhaps for testing purposes or because you find it causes you some specific issue with an application you have. If this is the case, it's important to realise that when you install .NET Framework...

If you are looking for blogs by Microsoft Employees on specific topics then a good place to start is the Microsoft Technical Communities portal. This portal is an entry point for Blogs, chats, newsgroups and webcasts. If you click the link for blogs you...

As mentioned yesterday .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 were released. Here is a more extensive set of links that may be useful: Soma's announcement mail with some brief details of the release Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack...

Now available: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) ( readme ) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (web installer) ( release notes ) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (full package) ( release notes ) These are important...

If like me you live or work realise within striking distance of Reading (in the UK) then there are a couple of free MSDN events coming soon that may be of interest to you: MSDN Event - Rich Internet Applications with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1...

[Important note, 9 March 2012. I wrote the following blog post some time ago with mainly IIS6 and Windows Server 2003 in mind and as I state – for non-production scenarios. For later versions of IIS the folder permissions I reassert using XCACLS are incomplete...

Here we are. It's 08:08:08 on 8/8/8 and this is my 100th blog post!! Woo-hoo! To celebrate, I had planned to present a list of the best 100 debugging resources that I am aware of. Could I come up with 100? Well, not quite.... First off, I set myself...